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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Annan: Situation In Syria Continues To Be Unacceptable

(Reuters) - Syrian security forces shot dead four civilians on a bus in the northern province of Idlib on Wednesday, dissidents said, as international pressure built on Damascus to honour ceasefire pledges to order soldiers and tanks back to barracks.

	NATO Accused Of Misleading Reports On Afghanistan
	Pakistan Tests Ballistic Missile
	Son Of Chinese Fallen Leader Speaks Out On Scandal
	Police Say Madeleine McCann May Be Alive
	French Driver Confuses Metro Station Stairs For Parking Garage

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	Kerry Kennedy: In Chicago: Nobel Laureates and Students Defending Human Rights, One Step at a Time I spent yesterday morning in the library of Chicago's Lincoln Park High School, listening to students talk about what the word "hero" means to them. This wasn't any normal school day.
	Lawrence Wittner: The Shame of Nations: A New Record Is Set on Spending for War What is the explanation for the fact that the United States -- today's military giant -- is currently engaged in at least two wars (in Iraq and Afghanistan) and appears to be on the verge of a third (with Iran)?
	Alon Ben-Meir: To Egypt's Youth: The Revolution Is Still Yours to Reclaim The Egyptian youth should organize itself and mobilize the masses (as they did in the initial stages of the revolution) to take to the streets in the millions in support of a single motto: save the revolution.
	José Fernando López: Eppur si muove (and yet it moves) The second decade of the 21st century will go down in history as an era in which the world got fed up of one of the most useless and prolonged wars: the war on drugs. Or, at least, of the indiscriminate war on all types of drugs and in particular against its consumers.